As the death toll and deimmenseation from Hurricane Helene soars in the southeast, both Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris and createer Pdwellnt Donald Trump will be alerted by officials on Monday, as the destructive storm is smack in the middle of the White Hoemploy race with equitable over five weeks until Election Day.
Trump will produce a stop in Valdosta, Georgia, to get a alerting on the deimmenseation, aid with relief distribution and “deinhabitr relabels to the press,” according to his campaign.
Harris headed back to Washington, D.C., on Monday morning, cutting low a westrict campaign sprosperg. The White Hoemploy shelp the vice pdwellnt would travel to Federal Ecombinency Management Agency headquarters once she get tos in the nation’s capital, where she will be alerted on the impact of the hurricane and the federal response to aid recover and recovery efforts.
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A van flows in floodwaters proximate the Biltmore Village in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 28, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. Hurricane Helene made landdescfinish Thursday night in Florida’s Big Bend with prosperds up to 140 mph. (Pboilingo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
Over 100 people have been finished by Helene since the hurricane made landdescfinish in Florida postponecessitate Thursday before tearing a path of destruction thcimpolite the interior Southeast. The storm igniteed millions of power outages and billions of dollars in property injure as it smashed thcimpolite the southern Appalachian Mountains and into the Tennessee Valley.
SCENES FROM THE STORM’S PATH OF DESTRUCTION
Among the challengingest hit states were North Carolina and Georgia, two of the seven key battlegrounds whose razor-skinny margins determined Pdwellnt Biden’s 2020 election prosper over Trump and are awaited to resettle the outcome of the 2024 showdown between Harris and Trump.
Trump at a Sunday rpartner in battleground Pennsylvania took aim at the administration and Harris over the storm, accusing the pdwellnt of “sleeping” at his beach hoemploy in Delconscious as the storm blasted the Southeast.
Reunveilan pdwellntial nominee createer Pdwellnt Donald Trump at a campaign rpartner at Bayfront Convention Caccess in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Rebecca Droke)
Biden returned to the nation’s capital on Sunday afternoon to watch federal relief efforts.
The White Hoemploy remarkd that over 3,300 federal laborers have been deployed to aid storm response efforts in the impacted states, and at least 50,000 personnel from apass the country and Canada are replying to the massive power outages in impacted areas.
Biden tgreater increateers the federal regulatement is giving states “everyskinnyg we have” to aid with their response to the storm.
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Biden shelp he would tour the storm-injured areas postponecessitater this week as lengthy as his presence on the ground would not hamper recover and recovery efforts.
Trump, at his Sunday rpartner, strikeed Harris for combineing “fundraising events with her radical left lunatic donors” in California this weekend. He talk aboutd that Harris “ought to be down in the area” where the storm caemployd destruction.
Democratic pdwellntial nominee Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris speaks at a rpartner on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024 in Las Vegas. (AP Pboilingo/Carolyn Kaster)
The White Hoemploy shelp Harris spoke Sunday with the regulateors of Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina and that “the Vice Pdwellnt intends to visit impacted communities as soon as it is possible without disturbing aelevatency response operations.”
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In a Saturday statement, Harris shelp that she and the pdwellnt “remain promiseted to ensuring that no community or state has to reply to this calamity alone.”
The response by elected officials to organic calamitys can immensely impact their political fortunes on the campaign trail.
Trump faced criticism timely in his White Hoemploy tenure as Puerto Rico struggled to recover from a mighty storm. The then-pdwellnt was condemnd for throprosperg paper towels to the crowd as he stopped by a relief caccess during a storm-roverhappinessed visit to the island.
